Jeremiah 17:5

This is what the LORD says: “Cursed is the man who trusts in mankind, who makes mere flesh his strength and turns his heart from the LORD.

Cross References (13)

  • Psalms 118:8–9 (63)

    It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in man.

  • Psalms 146:3–4 (50)

    Put not your trust in princes, in mortal man, who cannot save.

  • Isaiah 2:22 (37)

    Put no more trust in man, who has only the breath in his nostrils. Of what account is he?

  • 2 Chronicles 32:8 (29)

    With him is only the arm of flesh, but with us is the LORD our God to help us and to fight our battles.” So the people w

  • Isaiah 31:1–9 (23)

    Woe to those who go down to Egypt for help, who rely on horses, who trust in their abundance of chariots and in their mu

  • Isaiah 30:1–7 (20)

    “Woe to the rebellious children,” declares the LORD, “to those who carry out a plan that is not Mine, who form an allian

  • Isaiah 36:6 (17)

    Look now, you are trusting in Egypt, that splintered reed of a staff that will pierce the hand of anyone who leans on it

  • Psalms 62:9 (15)

    Lowborn men are but a vapor; the exalted are but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.

  • Psalms 18:21 (13)

    For I have kept the ways of the LORD and have not wickedly departed from my God.

  • Ezekiel 29:6–7 (11)

    Then all the people of Egypt will know that I am the LORD. For you were only a staff of reeds to the house of Israel.

  • Ezekiel 6:9 (9)

    Then in the nations to which they have been carried captive, your survivors will remember Me—how I have been grieved by

  • Hosea 1:2 (8)

    When the LORD first spoke through Hosea, He told him, “Go, take a prostitute as your wife and have children of adultery,

  • Isaiah 59:15 (6)

    Truth is missing, and whoever turns from evil becomes prey. The LORD looked and was displeased that there was no justice